So about 5 weeks ago I got my 4th concussion over about 10 years, but ocassionally I have ringing in my ears every now and then but not often, my wife says i seem to forgot a lot of things she tells me, and loud noises and sunlight still just kill my head. I am in the military and I was wondering if anyone here is/was mil and knows if this is a med board issue? This happened on-duty, non combat related, it was during PT.

Been along time since I ws in. Not sure what you mean by med board but the mil does recognize concussion/pcs pretty well. Thank you for your service to our country. What branch do you serve in?

Air Force. Med board basically breaks down to the military considers you cannot do your job anymore they will medically discharge or retire you

Falcon,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. It sounds like you need to understand your symptoms before presenting them to medical help. There is a good resource called the TBI Survival Guide at www.tbiguide.com It is 84 pages that you can print out. You and your wife can both read it and highlight your symptoms.

Understanding your symptoms can help you learn work-arounds and other coping skills so they don't get in the way of your work. So, do you work with 16's? What do you do specifically?

You want to learn work-arounds before someone else starts to notice your struggles. What other symptoms do you have?


My best to you.

Mark is dead on with his advice. His advice is sound, practical and intelligent. I also served AF 81 TO 84. Integrated avonics 326xx. Sometimes I miss it but regarding my last reporting officer, he was the reason I seperated. Best of luck.

I do not work with aircraft. I am a security forces k9 handler. Involves a lot of movement including being tackled by dogs. Symptoms are a pretty consistent headache, I wake up with one every morning. Doctors have diagnosed me with a concussion when it happened. Also once in a while I get ringing in my ears and I have had bad short term memory/being really forgetful and last but not least I get dizzy every now and then